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Collective security and responsibility to protect (R2P) are similar but different in scope, goals and methods. Explain.

  • UPSC 2025
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  • Key Concepts in International Relations

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Collective security, given its modern form by Woodrow Wilson and written into Chapter VII of the UN Charter, commits all members to meet aggression by any state with their combined power. The Responsibility to Protect, framed by the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS, 2001) and adopted in narrower form at the 2005…

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